Top-down perspective
Top down games were very popular in the 80s and the 90s, when graphic cards were not capable of supporting 3D, and even when 3D started to become popular, 2D games continued to be easier to develop, at least in the infancy of 3D gaming. 2D game offered the player a viewpoint that helped keeping things easily under control (think about top down party-based RPGs or hex-based strategy games).
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Hexxagon 2
DOS1993 Argo Games
High Command: Europe 1939-45
DOS1992 Colorado Computer Creations
Highway Fighter
DOS1995 Safari Software
Highway Hunter
DOS1994 Safari Software
Hill Street Blues
DOS1991 Krisalis
Hill Street Blues is an old DOS "driving" game developed by Krisalis in 1991. The gameplay it's similar to a Grand Theft Auto clone (we're talking about GTA 1 or 2) in which you are the police and you have to apprehend criminals. Hill Street Blues is a rare example of game based on a TV series.
Hillsfar
DOS1989protected Westwood Studios
Hole in One
DOS1995 Really Interesting Software Company
Homey D. Clown
DOS1993 Synergistic Software
House of Cards
DOS1989
IBM 9-Hole Miniature Golf
DOS1983 SoftSide Magazine
ICON: Quest for the Ring
DOS1984 Macrocom
If It Moves, Shoot It!
DOS1989 Emerald Software
Ikari III: The Rescue
DOS1990 SNK Corporation
Ikari Warriors 2: Victory Road
DOS1988 SNK Corporation
Incursion
Windows 10/11LinuxMac OS2007freeware
Indenture
DOS1995remake
Indiana Jones and his Desktop Adventures
Windows 3.xMac OS1996demo LucasArts
Infiltrator
DOS1987 Chris Gray Enterprises
Infiltrator 2
DOS1988 Chris Gray Enterprises
International Soccer
DOS1994 Zeppelin Games
Into the Eagle's Nest
DOS1987 Pandora
Iron Cross
DOS1994 New World Computing
Iron Lord
DOS1990 UBI Soft
Ishido: The Way of the Stones
DOSMac OS1990 Publishing International
It Came from the Desert
DOS1990freeware Cinemaware
It Came from the Desert is an abandonware action-adventure game developed by Cinemaware and released in 1990 for PC (DOS) and Amiga. It Came From the Desert is an action-adventure game with a peculiar flavor: it's set in the 50s, in the USA, and it's based on those old monster movies like Them! (also involving killer ants).
Italy 1990
DOS1990 Tiertex Design Studios
Ivan 'Iron Man' Stewart's Super Off Road
DOS1990 Leland
Ivan 'Iron Man' Stewart's Super Off Road is an abandoned diagonal-down off-road racing game developed by Leland and released by Virgin Interactive in 1990 for DOS, but also published for Amiga, Amstrad CPC, Atari ST, C64, ZX Spectrum and a lot of 8-bit and 16-bit consoles. Super Off Road is a classic fixed-screen track-racing similar to S...
IVAN (Iter Vehemens ad Necem)
DOSWindows 10/11LinuxMac OS2001freeware
J.R.R. Tolkien's Riders of Rohan
DOS1997 Papyrus Design Group
J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Vol. I
DOS1990 Interplay Productions
J.R.R. Tolkien's The Lord of the Rings, Vol. I is an abandoned fantasy top-down DOS RPG game set in the The Lord of the Rings universe. The Lord of the Rings I was developed and released by Interplay Productions in 1990. The Lord of the Rings, Vol. I is based on the popular The Lord Of The Rings book by J.R.R. Tolkien and it's focused on the f...